Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-10
MARTINS FERRY.

Our police and Marshal have promised
10 mmrn to-day and hereafter make it
an invariable will to allow no more corner
lOaiiug whatever. There is probably no
nuisance in town so obnoxious to the pcO-
pie in general and Ladies' in particular rs
the Internal crowds which collect on
prominent corners and blockade the side
| walks and make Professionalism IN actual
burden. These corner lOaicrs embrace
among their number citizens who are
credited with more good sense and pro-
prietv than tO allow themselves TO commit
a public nuisance, and We have no doubt a
majority of those who make exhibitions OF
themselves would dcsiSt it asked \ few
times by the police. If they persist in the
error, they should he locked up. A few
such examples would put an end to more
than three people getting into a bunch.
Another public nuisance, the cOmmittal
of which not only breaks our city ordi-
nance hut causes inconvenience to our peO-
pie and Injuries the looks of the city very
much, is the practice of merchants piling
dryguodS and grocery boxes, barrels, crates,
casks, lumber, coal ashes, garbage, and
anything else too unSightly TO be allowed
to remain in 4 backyard ofthe lowest or
der, upon the sidewalks and in the gut
ter. There are places in the city imme
diately in front of prominent business
houses where the street stands not less
than a foot higher than the original grade
line, the elevation being nothing more nor
less than the accumulations of the rubbish
of years thrown out into the street to save
the cost of carting it to the river, o. some
proper repository for filth. We know of u
merchant who threw n key OF
spoiled fish, and another a h%alf-barrel of
ancient s~auer-kraut, into the street. Did
it stink? Well, should say yes! Such
things rs these have a positive tendency to
drive strangers from the town, and i'm
press newcomers with the idea that Mar
tins Ferry isa hole, and not q prosperous
city. We are not positive whether it is
the duty of the City Commissioner or Mar
shall to make an effort to abate these nui-
sanceS, hut we know some one should.
To see Marshal Burns riding his new
horse, with his bright blue uniform and
brass buttons, one would think we were
very metropolitan, and that our mounted
police force, taking this much rs n sample,
is u very fine one.
The funeral of John Stewart takes place
from his hone to-day at O'clock, and will
he attended by the X. of T., National
Union and Nailers' Lodge OF the A. 4. oil
/. Is. w. The remains will be inferred
in Greenwood Cemetery, in Wheeling.
The new c. & p. freight office will be
occupied tomorrow.
\ few days since 4 well-knOwn Martins
Ferry man was sitting in a drug store of
flee when q friend entered and purchased q
bottle of Smiths Pile Beans. The first
named gentleman WAS accompanied by a
small yellow dog, Major Camp says yell
low dogs are the worst dogs on earth
which he seemed to think indeed an alter,
native. by request the mar with the
beans fed some of the pretty white discs to
tine dog, the canine evidently relishing
them. The druggist seeing the perform
ance, slipped ont to a grocery and got q
small piece of sausage on which he
sprinkled two grains of strichnine, and
when the other two gentlemen were look
fed it to the dog on top OF the liver medi
cine. The druggist thought of course the
dog would die and his demise he blamed
on the bile beans, as he commenced telling
how the beans contained calOmel and how
calOmel is positive death to dogs, &c. But
the dog fingered tor several hours, friskeC
his tail and showed no signs of indiSpOsi
ton, and in fact is still living, and appar
emily as well As any dog in town.
On Wednesday evening the young ladie:
of the T. B. c. rendered their gentlemen
friends a reception at the home OF Mis-
Anna Bell Hobbs in the Third ward
Those present were Misses Ella Ingle
bright, Bessie Brady, Jessie Sheets, Bell'
Sheets, Kate Greer, Edna Crowell, Minnie
Cox, AIDA Schwartz and MeSSrs. jane
Brown, James RalstOn, ThOmp Kerr, Geo
~Inglebright, Will Zink, Ed. Blacktord
Lee Morris and Rush Wilson.
There will be special Easter services il